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June 28th 2009

Amazon’s Unfortunate Windows 7 Freudian Slip

Surely this is some kind of innocent SEO-related keyword slip, right? I mean, Microsoft definitely doesn’t want one of the biggest online retailers in the world billing its new OS as Windows Vista 7 Home Premium, right? Right?! I mean, such labeling would play right into detractor’s hands. Regardless, Hodgman has been dispatched. New Apple…

Tech News Jack Loftus Jun 28

June 24th 2009

Oops! Best Buy Selling a Palm Pre Case with ‘iPod Sold Separately’

Here’s something Palm execs can’t like to see: a listing for a Palm Pre holster on BestBuy.com that says “iPod sold separately” on its image. At least the picture is of a Pre, right? [BestBuy.com; Thanks, Rob!]

Tech News Adam Frucci Jun 24

January 20th 2009

CBS’s ‘Worst Week’ Mistakes iPod for iPhone, Sends Nerdier Viewers into Convulsions

‘Worst Week’ is apparently some kind of adapted British show about a guy whose life sucks, or something. I don’t know. All I do know is that this guy’s iPhone is not an iPhone. To add insult to injury, the person on the other end of the line has an actual iPhone, assuming that he…

Tech News John Herrman Jan 20

June 22nd 2008

We Can’t Wait for the New iPhone G3

“It’s even faster than the old iPhone G3.” Found on Time. Think you can do better? You probably can. Hit the comments and give it your best shot. [Time via BGR]

Tech News Mark Wilson Jun 22

April 23rd 2008

How to Implode a Tanker Car in Under a Second

Click to view Here’s a tip for next time you’re emptying a sealed storage tank on a train or a truck: make sure you properly vent it! If you don’t, it’ll implode in an amazing fashion, which might make for an entertaining video but will probably get you yelled at and fired. But hot damn,…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Apr 23

January 23rd 2008

MPAA: Did We Say 44% of Piracy Was Done By Students? We Meant 15%, Our Bad!

So the MPAA used to shout about a study they performed that showed that 44% of illegal movie downloading was done by college students, a figure they used as evidence that our government needed to enact some laws to keep our feckless youth population under control. The only problem? The study was complete BS, with…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Jan 23

January 14th 2008

Microsoft Customer Service Makes a Follow-Up Call 10 Years Too Late

Here’s a call you never expect to get: a customer service followup from Microsoft… ten years after the first call. That’s exactly what happened to a guy who had called the big M way back on January 7, 1998. On the 8th of this month, he got a followup call to make sure everything was…

Tech News Adam Frucci Jan 14

June 13th 2006

Sony’s Spelling Blunders

A reader of our blogging cohorts, Kotaku, hit up Sony’s Ginza showroom and found a comical spelling error on the displayed Playstation 3 controller. Sony just can’t seem to get anything right as of late. We highly doubt the SERECT spelling error will make the shelves, but it is still nice to giggle at their…

Tech News Travis Hudson Jun 13

Amazon’s Unfortunate Windows 7 Freudian Slip

Oops! Best Buy Selling a Palm Pre Case with ‘iPod Sold Separately’

CBS’s ‘Worst Week’ Mistakes iPod for iPhone, Sends Nerdier Viewers into Convulsions

We Can’t Wait for the New iPhone G3

How to Implode a Tanker Car in Under a Second

MPAA: Did We Say 44% of Piracy Was Done By Students? We Meant 15%, Our Bad!

Microsoft Customer Service Makes a Follow-Up Call 10 Years Too Late

Sony’s Spelling Blunders

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